Last summer I had high hopes for NewsNation and WGN America's venture into direct, down the middle news. Now the brief experiment is on life support with the resignation of Jennifer Lyons and the other top leadership. How the suits at Nextstar Media Group can proclaim this a success is beyond me. No one is watching and the people it hired to lead and run the day-to-day operation are fleeing because they see it for what it is. NewsNation could have been something great. Instead, if it even stays on the air, it will be a blip in the ratings and have no influence as a news organization. How sad.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsNation\u00a0went from bad to worse this week after Jennifer Lyons followed her top two lieutenants out the door\u00a0at the Chicago-based cable news network they built from scratch. As vice president of news, Lyons hired scores of journalists who trusted they were joining a network without a political agenda, largely based on her well-earned reputation for... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29014"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29035,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014\/revisions\/29035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}